"And then suddenly 18 months later it's like, 'Oh, wait a second. That actually could happen'. Or it is happening. I think that we're scarier than we've ever been before."

What Spacey finds even scarier is that the show isn't following or reflecting certain political events, it predicted them.

"At some point between when we shot the season and before it dropped," he said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "three or four or five things that we have dealt with happened in the real world, and we go, 'OK, everyone's going to assume we stole it from the headlines', but in fact, we did it first."